FFI::Aspell

FFI::Aspell is an FFI binding for the Aspell library. It was mainly written as Raspell, a C binding for Aspell, is buggy and no longer maintained by the main author as of April 2012.

Requirements

  • FFI: gem install ffi
  • Aspell (sudo pacman -S aspell if you're on Arch Linux)
  • Dutch and Greek language packs for Aspell.

Usage

Install the gem:

$ gem install ffi-aspell

Load it:

require 'ffi/aspell'

The primary class is FFI::Aspell::Speller, this class can be used to check for spelling errors and the like:

speller = FFI::Aspell::Speller.new('en_US')

if speller.correct?('cookie')
  puts 'The word "cookie" is correct'
else
  puts 'The word "cookie" is incorrect'
end

For more information see the YARD documentation.

Hacking & Contributing

  1. Make sure that Aspell and the English and Dutch dictionaries for it are installed as well. On Arch Linux this can be done by running sudo pacman -S aspell aspell-en aspell-nl.
  2. Install the gems: bundle install
  3. Run the tests to see if everything is working: rake test
  4. Hack away!

Coding Standards

  • FFI functions go in FFI::Aspell
  • Attached function names should resemble the C function names as much as possible.
  • No more than 80 characters per line of code.
  • Document your code, pull requests with big changes but without documentation will be rejected.
  • Git commits should be signed off, this can be done by running git commit --sign. Commits that are not signed off will be rejected.
  • Follow the Git commit standards are described here: http://ramaze.net/documentation/file.contributing.html#Commit_Messages.
  • Test your code! Pull requests without tests will not be accepted.

License

The code in this repository is licensed under the MIT license. A copy of this license can be found in the file "LICENSE" in the root directory of this repository.